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- Title:
- William Richardson interview
- Interviewee:
- Richardson, William, 1947-
- Interviewer:
- Williams, Charles Thomas
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-23
- Role:
- Faculty; University administrator
- Department:
- Liberal Studies; School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science
- Subjects:
- academic administration curriculum planning research University of California branch campuses interdisciplinary education interdisciplinarity Russian history team teaching diversity hiring recruitment enrollment Japanese Language School historic preservation Bill Richardson
- Biography:
- Bill Richardson (b. 1947) was a founding faculty member of University of Washington Tacoma and the first director of the Liberal Studies program, known today as the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. He served as UW Tacoma's acting dean from 1994 to 1995. He retired in 2006. Prior to UW Tacoma, Richardson was a faculty member for 12 years at Wichita State University in Kansas. He holds a BA in history and Russian from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a PhD from UC Berkeley.
- Description:
- In this interview, Bill Richardson recalls his experience as a founding faculty member of UW Tacoma. He shares his motivation to help build a university, having witnessed the establishment of UC Santa Cruz and UC Irvine during his time as a student in the University of California system. He describes the unique hiring process and framework for the curriculum following the Washington state mandate to create branch campuses. He discusses team teaching, the interdisciplinary approach that was emphasized in the founding of UW Tacoma, and the relationship between the three UW campuses. He mentions representation in the faculty and early efforts to recruit and increase gender and ethnic diversity.
- Location:
- United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
- Type:
- Sound; Text; StillImage
- Format:
- cpd
- Preferred Citation:
- University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Tacoma Library, UWTOH202010